User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Quick Reference
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Using the 4-Directional Push Encoder
- Pinning a Mode on the Controller
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- Undo/Redo
- List Overlay for Selectors
- Zoom and Scroll Overlays
- Focusing on a Group or a Sound
- Switching Between the Master, Group, and Sound Level
- Navigating Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pages in the Control Area
- Navigating the Software Using the Controller
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Touch Auto-Write Option
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Host Integration
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- Using a Pedal with the MASCHINE Controller
- File Management on the MASCHINE Controller
- Browser
- Browser Basics
- Searching and Loading Files from the Library
- Overview of the Library Pane
- Selecting or Loading a Product and Selecting a Bank from the Browser
- Selecting a Product Category, a Product, a Bank, and a Sub-Bank
- Selecting a File Type
- Choosing Between Factory and User Content
- Selecting Type and Character Tags
- List and Tag Overlays in the Browser
- Performing a Text Search
- Loading a File from the Result List
- Additional Browsing Tools
- Using Favorites in the Browser
- Editing the Files’ Tags and Properties
- Loading and Importing Files from Your File System
- Locating Missing Samples
- Using Quick Browse
- Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
- Playing on the Controller
- Working with Plug-ins
- Plug-in Overview
- The Sampler Plug-in
- Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins
- Using the Audio Plug-in
- Using the Drumsynths
- Using the Bass Synth
- Working with Patterns
- Pattern Basics
- Recording Patterns in Real Time
- Recording Patterns with the Step Sequencer
- Editing Events
- Recording and Editing Modulation
- Creating MIDI Tracks from Scratch in MASCHINE
- Managing Patterns
- Importing/Exporting Audio and MIDI to/from Patterns
- Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Song View
- Section Management Overview
- Creating Sections
- Assigning a Scene to a Section
- Selecting Sections and Section Banks
- Reorganizing Sections
- Adjusting the Length of a Section
- Clearing a Pattern in Song View
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- Working with Patterns in Song view
- Enabling Auto Length
- Looping
- Playing with Sections
- Triggering Sections or Scenes via MIDI
- The Arrange Grid
- Quick Grid
- Sampling and Sample Mapping
- Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
2. If you want to apply the effect to the Master (to process the audio of the whole Project),
press Button 1 to select the MASTER tab.
3. If you want to apply the effect to a Group (to process the audio of the whole Group), press
Button 2 to select the GROUP tab and press the Group button A–H corresponding to the
desired Group. If the desired Group is in another bank, before you select the Group you
first need to press SHIFT + the corresponding Group button A–H to select the Group
bank.
4. If you want to apply the effect to a Sound, press Button 3 to select the SOUND tab, se-
lect the Group containing that Sound (see previous step), and press SELECT + the pad of
that Sound (or simply hit its pad if pads are in Pad Mode).
5. Move the 4-D encoder right to navigate to the Plug-in slot where you want to load the ef-
fect (the name of the Plug-in currently loaded in the selected slot appears between the
arrows under Button 5 and 6 as well as on the left display). If you want to add the effect
in addition to the existing Plug-ins, press Button 6 repeatedly to select EMPTY.
6. Press the 4-D encoder or SHIFT + BROWSER (Plug-in) to open the Plug-in Browser and
browse the available Plug-ins.
7. On the left display, turn Knob 1 to select the TYPE from Instrument or Effect. The Instru-
ment option only appears when applying effects to Sounds.
The right display shows the list of available instruments or effect Plug-ins.
8. Turn Knob 2 to select the VENDOR from INTERNAL, or the name of the vendor e.g. Na-
tive Instruments.
If you have selected any other Plug-in slot the TYPE field is not available — only Effect
Plug-ins will be listed in the right display.
9. Turn the 4-D encoder or Knob 8 to browse the available Plug-ins.
Using Effects
Applying Effects to a Sound, a Group or the Master
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